“People often ask me how to get started as a writer. My advice is always to find people who are also starting out, and work with them.”— John Green, youtube.com
“We only have a concept of self because of our ability to symbolically recall our past and stitch together a story of who we are.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Everything seems way blown out of proportion when you're the only one thinking about it.”— Chelsea Fagan, youtube.com
“It is the official responsibility of us as human beings to try to imagine the world around us as complexly and interestingly as we can.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Gotham's evil incarnate is a simplification of the problems that we face, and Batman is a simplification of us, of all of us, who do the good that makes the world work. In some peculiar way, we are all bat-people: not the heroes Earth needs, but the heroes Earth just happened to get.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Gotham's criminals aren't a product of disenfranchisement and undervaluation by culture. "Some people", as Alfred tells Master Wayne, "just want to watch the world burn." So, Batman is a reflection of our anger and our ambition and our frustration that our powerlessness to fix that things that we se…”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Individual people cannot have, and do not have, and should not have the power to change everything on their own, and when they try to do it, it always turns out bad,”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“I know those controversial comments get replies but I don't think they change anyone's mind. Like, screaming at each other is a bad way of listening, but I think it's also a bad way of getting heard.”— John Green, youtube.com
“All these bad ways of starting conversations, they're effective ways to start conversations because we all feel compelled to respond. Like, hostility generally gets answered with hostility.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Happiness is not about what we have, but about what we do with the individual minutes and hours and days of our lives.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“We have to help people fear less. Fear less by getting them to travel in deeper, richer, more meaningful ways. Ways that transforms lives, communities, and ultimately, the planet we live on.”— Joe Diaz, youtube.com
“We're not going to burn down the suburbs and live in lean-tos, we'd probably be happier if we did, but we're not going to.”— Sebastian Junger, youtube.com
“We wanted readers, not just visitors; artistic appreciation, not just social likes.”— Chris Lavergne, techcrunch.com
“I think the reality is you can see that countries in the world that isolate themselves, it’s not good for their people.”— Tim Cook, wsj.com
“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”— John Green, amazon.com
“But you can't shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love... Someone to hold on to...”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“I am a firm believer that you don’t do anything significant by yourself.”— Barack Obama, vanityfair.com
“For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.”— Junot Dìaz, youtube.com
“Music moves with the times. It’s not something we have to consciously do. This is what’s happening in the world — not only to me but to my community. Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally. And this is where we’re at. When you look at other artists doing the same thing, it’s of the…”— Kendrick Lamar, nytimes.com